Generally speaking, it's hard to get people to unanimously agree to risk mitigation spending, since they don't tangibly see the benefit, which is a potential reduction in the fallout spending.
Rob Ford R.I.P.
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Generally speaking, it's hard to get people to unanimously agree to risk mitigation spending, since they don't tangibly see the benefit, which is a potential reduction in the fallout spending.
This was before council stripped his powers (and rightfully so)
Yes Ford had a crew of cronies trying to cash in on his outsider message also. Giorgio Mamolitti being the head clown and a generally terrible human also. Ford rode a wave of faux gravy train into office and was busy looking for pennies in the cushions rather than the big picture problems. Cutting the plate fee when the city is in a financial crunch is an example of this. Pro car anti transit (raising TTC passes $60 a year instead of plate fee) is not the way for a large city to operate. Ford flamed a divided city and played each citizen against each other which never leads to good things and creates division.
Subways may technically be better (although they seem to break down every storm also) but exchanging a fully funded transit system that would service all of scarborough for a 3 stop subway is just bad economics. Now scarborough is years away from either. LRT is fantastic for places where subways would be prohibitively expensive or that don't have the population density to justify a subway. A DT relief line would see many times the amount of users as a 3 stop stubway but Ford is never about what would serve Toronto best. The new streetcars are fantastic and I can't wait for them to be along Queen. In order to replace that volume with busses you would need 3-4 busses on the road for every streetcar. So are busses really better for traffic? The window for subways at a reasonable cost has long closed. The same people that whine for subways would never swallow the costs to actually accomplish this making most of the subway argument a non existent point. LRT is used in many large populated cities around the world and works very well as a compromise of cost and efficiency.
Personally I wish Toronto would revert to the lines before amalgamation. Old Toronto has different needs from Etobicoke or Scarborough and each should have their own city council and vote on the interests that reflect their citizens. In Scarborough cycling might be considered a leisure activity while those downtown is an important means of transportation. In the Downtown is is unusual for a family to have multiple vehicles but affordable transit is a priority to them. Amalgamation is the main reason for council being ineffective as their is little consensus as to what is best for the people and most issues end up being a 50/50 split which is never a good standard for healthy growth.
That makes no sense. I worked for parks and rec when I was at school. Trees in a neighbourhood are typically trimmed every 4-5 years. There were cut backs in 2011 and the ice storm was in 2013. You are actually saying that those trees grew so much in 2 years that they took out all the power in those areas...
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Ok, so you appeared to have given some opinions and presented them as facts.
So I called you on it, rightfully so, and you've now presented more opinions, some of which are quite obviously false.
Do you not actually have the facts?
Will you just keep presenting more and more opinions, when questioned?
Where are the facts?
Isn't there some municipal, provincial, ESA regulation where branches have to be more than x metres from hydro lines that the city would need to adhere to? I remember getting a notice from Toronto Hydro that I was not in compliance but since the tree was not on city property it was my problem.
They gave me a list of approved contractors and a deadline to get it trimed. I ended up doing it myself which was probably pretty dumb in hindsight
What did you exactly call me on in your previous post? That the tree budget was cut before Rob lost his powers? That other councillors hungry for appointments and favour with the mayor voted a long with him? I'm missing what you are acting so smug about. Please point out the 'quite obviously false' statements please.
Yes much of this is my opinion because we are having a discussion just as your love of Rob Ford is based on your opinion. Where are your facts to support Rob Ford being a great mayor? Other than contracting out garbage to half the city and saving minor bits of the budget what did Rob Ford do that is worthy of praise?
I thought there were strict guidelines also which is why many neighbours called the city as the trees were on city property. We were told that the budget had been cut and the trees would not be trimmed on the usual schedule. Maybe this was wrong information but its what I was told when I inquired.
This isn't the thread for that, but if you want to post somewhere else I can offer answers to some of those questions.
